The Mystery Revealed

One of the great things about watching an Agatha Christie drama for the very first time is playing the detective yourself.  Great entertainment can be found trying to work out who done it! Solving the labyrinth of clues, joining up the hidden connections and working the mystery out. Let us be honest, there is nothing quite as satisfying as getting it right. Most clues are clouded in mystery and some are not revealed to the viewer, so sometimes it is just impossible to work out and it becomes a matter of guesswork and luck.

The Old Testament contained a mystery, a secret hidden in prophecies, pictures, images, words and actions. Something that was so radical, so good, so scandalous, so unbelievable that the Old Testament saints could only look forward to it, and put their faith in it, their hope in the coming Messiah, the promise of salvation. God’s grace and mercy was freely given to these saints, as they trusted a God who would one day reconcile himself to them. And just like an Agatha Christie drama all the clues were there for everyone to find and understand to uncover the final result.

And what was this mystery that runs through the bible, it is a crimson strand of God’s grace, it is that God now lives and dwells inside every believer, it is “Christ in us – the hope of glory”.

Christ gives us his riches, Christ gives us his glory, Christ gives us his righteousness, Christ gives us his life, Christ gives us eternal life, and Christ dwells in our hearts with the same power that raised him from the dead. He is totally and utterly united with in us.

Christ is God’s gift to me given to me on God’s initiative, before I even existed. 

The good news is that I can be connected and interwoven into God, through Christ by His Spirit. The trinity now lives inside me; I have become God’s dwelling place, a holy, walking, talking, living temple.